Product Updates

Over the next few weeks, YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform will be adding new features that allow users to make compliant video content, gain clear visibility into credit usage, easily apply settings across courses, and more.

1. Make LMS Videos Accessible Using the New Video Compliance Player

   Panorama’s new Video Compliance Player allows users to embed videos into their LMSs with an extensive toolset of accessibility features such as captioning, enhanced audio descriptions, and video chaptering. This appears in a dedicated Video Compliance tab in the sidebar, seamlessly integrating into Panorama workflows. Users can embed third-party content effortlessly without sacrificing captions or compliance features, providing an accessible and inclusive viewing experience for all learners. The Video Compliance Player comes with 5 hours of free credits every month, with additional credits available for purchase.

   

   Key features include:

   • Automatic Captioning: Effortlessly add captions to video content, ensuring that videos are easily understood by users, regardless of auditory ability.

     

   • Enhanced Audio Description: Make your institution compliant with Title II accessibility standards by using the Video Compliance Player’s detailed pause-and-play audio descriptions that foster an inclusive viewing experience.

     

   • Video Chaptering: Automatically break up long videos into smaller sections to make dense, information-packed videos easier to navigate, review, and understand.

     

2. Apply Settings Across Multiple Courses or Sub Accounts With One Click

   Admins, sub‑admins, and instructors can now apply the same Course Settings to multiple courses or sub-accounts at once. This eliminates the need to update courses or sub accounts individually, allowing users to save time and avoid duplications, inaccuracies, and inconsistencies.

   

3. Effortlessly Manage Panorama Add-On Credit Usage

   Panorama now provides admins with a data table clearly detailing add-on credit usage for AutoPilot and Structural Remediation. With this feature update, users will be able to manage add-on credit usage across the institution, assign credit limits for roles, and assign individual credit limits for users. With filtering, sorting, and export options, this consolidated data table simplifies credit management and helps ensure Panorama add-on products are being used in accordance with your institution’s specific needs.

   In AutoPilot and Structural Remediation Management, users will be able to:

   • Monitor credit usage across roles and users: Admins can see how many credits are assigned to and spent by users, along with the total credits for each role.

   • Assign role credit limits: Admins can change or set credit usage limits for roles. Each user with that role permission receives the set credit limit.

     

   • Assign user credit limits: Alternatively, admins can change or set credit usage limits for individual users. User credit limits override role credit limits.

     

4. Use the New User Simulation Feature to Monitor DocHub Libraries

   Admins can now view and manage the DocHub libraries of other users through the new User Simulation option. This grants admins the ability to monitor the accessibility and compliance levels of other users’ libraries, and permits them to work within other users’ environments. This new organizational governance improvement ensures that the integrity of a user’s library is preserved during the simulation process and unauthorized access into private folders is prevented.

   

5. Marking Images as Decorative now Supported in Word, PowerPoint, and PDF Documents

   Panorama’s inline remediation now lets users mark images as decorative with one click to resolve alt text issues when appropriate. The update is applied directly to the underlying file, so screen readers correctly ignore non-informative images, effectively reducing audible clutter while ensuring that documents are remediated according to compliance standards.

   Users can mark images as decorative in:

   • PDF documents

     

   • Microsoft Word documents

     

   • Microsoft PowerPoint documents

     

6. Easily Update User Emails Without Data Duplication or Loss

   Panorama now allows admins to easily update a user’s email address without manually recreating the user. Admins can quickly make changes to a user’s email field in addition to their first and last name directly within the Roster Management interface, or programmatically through the updateUserInfo API. This preserves all existing data, including roles, reports, and accessibility settings associated with the account, offering an intuitive and simple way to manage user information while eliminating the risk of data duplication or loss.

   

7. Get Insight on Your Institution’s Accessibility Performance Using Comparison Reports

   Admins can now see how their institution measures up against peers with the new Comparison Report feature. The report benchmarks your average accessibility score for the past year against fully anonymized data from other institutions, providing valuable insights on institutional compliance without compromising privacy. Users can also view the average accessibility score of different file formats, the number of issues auto-resolved by AlwaysOn Compliance, and Accessibility Insights. This makes it easier for admins to identify strengths, spot improvement opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to enhance their institution’s performance.

   

8. Manage Permissions Securely with the “ Content Developer” Role

   Institutions can now map the Content Developer role to the Panorama Instructor role. This lets designers improve course accessibility just like instructors, without granting access to admin reports or institution-level settings, and eliminates the need to enroll them as teachers in hundreds of courses. The result is a streamlined workflow, secure role management, and faster accessibility improvements across courses.

   

9. Improved Workflows for Human-Assisted Accessibility Issues

   Panorama now alerts users on edge case accessibility issues that could not be automatically remediated by the Remediation Engine. When an issue like difficult color-contrast requires manual remediation, it will be flagged by the Accessibility Report and identified to users through a pop-up modal. Users will also be provided with contextual guidance, tooltips, and remediation assistance to resolve them. With this new flagging system, users will be able to quickly identify difficult accessibility issues and take prompt action to fix them, in addition to reducing persistent flagging.

   

10. Faster Response Time for Large PDFs

    We’ve optimized the Accessibility Report, Alternative Formats, and Report Viewer functionalities in Panorama to handle large PDF files more efficiently. These performance improvements enhance responsiveness when viewing reports or generating alternative formats for dense course material such as textbooks. With improved responsiveness, large PDFs become easier to review and remediate at scale using Panorama’s accessibility tools.

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Panorama LMS Accessibility Platform will roll out new features to ensure caption compliance for Canvas-embedded videos, provide a guided experience across accessibility tools, offer a redesigned support experience that makes it faster and easier for instructors and admins to get assistance, and so much more.

1. Ensure Caption Compliance for Canvas-Embedded Videos

   Videos uploaded to Canvas and embedded via the Canvas Media Player in the WYSIWYG editor are now automatically checked for captions. Any video without captions will be flagged, helping instructors maintain accessibility standards and ensuring all students have equal access to course content.

   

2. Guided Experience Across Accessibility Tools

   First-time users now get a guided walkthrough across Alternative Formats, the Accessibility Report, and Structural Remediation Max, helping them quickly familiarize themselves with each interface. Banners, overlays, and prompts highlight key actions and navigation points, while admins can enable default settings to display guidance after course scanning. This update improves usability, accelerates onboarding, and boosts adoption and confidence with our accessibility tools.

   

3. Get Help Instantly with the New Support Modal

   The support experience has been redesigned to make it faster and easier for instructors and admins to get assistance. Clicking Support now opens a modal with tailored options: Live Chat, Call Support, Contact Form, and Product Docs. This streamlined modal centralizes support actions, giving users faster, more intuitive access to help when they need it.

   

4. Expanded Accessibility Coverage for Moodle Lesson Pages

   YuJa Panorama now scans additional Moodle lesson content pages, generating full accessibility reports and providing alternative formats. When lesson content is remediated through Panorama, the updated, accessible version can now replace the original content, ensuring fixes are reflected directly in the course without manual rework.

   

5. Share Accessible DocHub Folders Instantly for Seamless Collaboration

   Instructors can now share Accessible DocHub folders, making it simple to distribute multiple documents at once. This streamlines workflows, saves time, and ensures course materials are easily accessible wherever they’re needed, helping teams collaborate more efficiently and maintain accessibility compliance.

   

6. Free Trial: See How the YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module Speeds Up Accessibility Compliance

   Users can now start a free trial of the YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module to experience how inline fixes and guided remediation workflows reduce content remediation time by 95%+. By resolving accessibility issues directly within documents, institutions can eliminate manual rework, accelerate compliance efforts, and scale remediation across large volumes of content with far less effort before committing.

   

7. Centralize Course Materials with a Default DocHub Folder

   Admins can now upload content into a default DocHub folder accessible to all instructors. This creates a centralized, organized location for important documents, reducing reliance on external tools like Google Drive and making it easier for instructors to find and use shared course materials efficiently.

   

8. Added Support to Rename DocHub Folders for Better Organization

   Users can now change DocHub folder names after they’ve been created. This allows instructors and admins to keep folders organized, update naming conventions, and ensure content is easy to find as courses and materials evolve over time.

   

Enhancements to the YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module add font-size remediation for PDFs, accelerating accessibility workflows, supporting OCR-related fixes, and reducing manual effort to meet compliance standards.

1. Accelerate PDF Accessibility with Font-Size Remediation The YuJa Full-Circle Inline Remediation Module now supports font-size remediation for PDFs, helping institutions quickly address accessibility flags that require OCR injection. This feature speeds up remediation workflows, ensures PDFs meet accessibility standards, and reduces the time spent manually fixing document text for compliance.

Rolling out over the next few weeks, new updates to the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module allow admins to review and approve instructor requests, helping institutions maintain workflow oversight, prevent misuse, and better manage accessibility remediation spending.

1. Approve DocAssist Requests to Optimize Spending and Workflow

   Administrators can now review and approve instructor requests for the YuJa DocAssist Accessibility Module before they are sent to YuJa. This ensures requests are intentional, prevents misuse, and helps optimize spending, especially for page-based remediation, while keeping workflows efficient and under institutional control.

   

The YuJa AccessNotes Note-Taking Platform is now the YuJa Intelio AI Knowledge Assistant, reflecting an expanded focus beyond note-taking to a personal, AI-powered student assistant that delivers instant, course-specific guidance, supports ongoing conversations, and centralizes course content for a more seamless learning experience.

1. YuJa Intelio AI: Your Personal Knowledge Assistant

   Intelio AI transforms course content into an interactive, AI-powered study assistant, helping students stay organized, informed, and supported throughout their courses. Accessible from the sidebar, students can ask course-specific or general questions and revisit previous conversations for continuous guidance.

   Key benefits include:

   • Instant, Personalized Support: Students get immediate answers about assignments, quizzes, deadlines, and announcements, keeping them on track without searching through course materials.

     

   • Seamless Study Experience: New chats can be created while older conversations remain accessible, allowing students to manage multiple questions and study sessions efficiently.

     

   • Centralized Course Guidance: Intelio AI provides one place for students to explore course content, reducing confusion and making learning more intuitive and efficient.